Naming projects for export

Hi folks
Just curious…why does Audacity not allow certain symbols when creating a title for a project. Symbols like * { ( & : are not permitted in project titles when exporting.

As always thanks in advance for your input.

Bob H

[u]Windows file/folder name restrictions[/u]

And that’s if you’re sticking in the Windows universe.

If you have to transfer files universally between multiple different computer types and ages, the list gets smaller: Upper, Lower, Numbers, -Dash- and Underscore.

The slash marks in particular can cause very serious problems.

Today is not 3/8/18. It’s 2018-03-08.

Koz

I wrote this for a different poster.

This is full-on obsessive mode for creating a show.

https://forum.audacityteam.org/t/saved-file-seems-to-have-lost-all-data/48519/3

Koz